On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:06:58PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > 1. Does Debian require a SONAME for a shared lib? > > > > You mean the tag inside the library itself? > > Yes. > > > All of the shared libraries I have installed on my machine have an > > embedded SONAME tag. I thought this was required by the dynamic linker? > > Not so! > > cd /usr/lib > for x in *.so ; do objdump -p $x | grep -q SONAME || echo $x; done
I think the confusion here is between a SONAME and a library version number. Typically, the library version number is part of the SONAME. What we are speaking of here is libraries which do not have a version number in their SONAME. -- - mdz
